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3 American Concertos isn't exactly "new" it's just that I haven't put it up for sale on this site till now. I had an idea that it would be a good thing to record some concertos but with the piano reduction instead of the orchestra setting for which they were originally composed. I feel there are a lot of great…
Pietzsch 12
This Etude #12 exposes flaws in your fundamentals and intonation like very few etudes I've ever seen! And, if you can get to the last couple measures, they are super painful after everything you've been through throughout the etude. This is a great one to have your tuner on in such a way you can see it while playing.
note: the last measure of the third line page 2 I think should be an A…
Pietzsch 11
Pietzsch #11 features some close-interval slurring in the mid to upper register which makes this one especially tiring! The top of page 2 gave me some trouble with fingerings in the low register. I probably should have worked on this one more before recording it because I think overall it should be faster and smoother. Good Luck!
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Pietzsch 10
Pietzsch #10 is a nice one. It has some broad playing, orchestral dotted eighth-sixteenths, close-interval slurs and double-tonguing. A little something for everyone! In areas of lower register there are some nasty cross fingerings so start those areas slowly. The transitions from slurring sixteenths to double-tonguing is tricky. Work over the break of those transitions. It's easy to stop…
Pietzsch 9
Really only one thing to say about #9 - Double Tonguing. Well ok, I guess that's two things...
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Hindemith Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
Title
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano op. 137 (1939)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Biographical Info
The sonata opens with the trumpet proclaiming a sturdy theme over piano figuration to the performance direction mit Kraft (with strength). Two more ideas are presented, with the movement’s eventual form set out in the neatly symmetrical arrangement of A-B-C-A-C-B-A. The second movement has a…
Enescu – Legende
Title
Legende (1906)
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Biographical Info
Pablo Casals described Enescu as "the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart" and "one of the greatest geniuses of modern music". Queen Marie of Romania wrote in her memoirs that "in George Enescu was real gold".Yehudi Menuhin, Enescu's most famous pupil, once said about his teacher: "He will remain for me the absoluteness…
Buechner – Suite for Solo Trumpet
Title
Suite for Solo Trumpet
Zachary Buechner (b. 1995)
Biographical Info
This Suite was conceived as much out of boredom as well as it was a desire to help expand the repertoire of solo trumpet music. Most of the music was written during my final semester at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville while waiting for my laundry to finish whatever wash or dry cycle it was on, hence the…
Pietzsch 8
Pietzsch #8 strikes me as a very "orchestral" sounding etude. Meaning, I want to play with a big, broad sound and play the dotted rhythms as squarely as possible. I don't mean square as in a non-jazz sense but I'm thinking the shapes of squares and rectangles when I approach these rhythms. Keep the corners of these shapes as sharp as possible. Keep the long notes in the phrases as stable as…
Pietzsch 7
This one is quite a physical workout. Lots of "Clark-like" slurring in the mid to upper register. It helps me to think of creating a really good foundation of air - "bedrock" - and focus on using my embouchure and aperture to manipulate the pitches. You may be tempted to arch the tongue and "hiss" the high parts out like you would if this were a lead trumpet part. Unfortunately, I don't think…